ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,409, issued on July 22, was assigned to JFE STEEL Corp. (Tokyo).
"Steel-strip production method, and steel strip" was invented by Sachihiro Iida (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A steel-strip production method for producing a hot-dip-plated steel strip and a cold-rolled steel strip, the method being executed by a production apparatus including a continuous annealing furnace, a snout connected to the continuous annealing furnace, a contact-type seal plate device, a noncontact-type seal roll device, a hot-dip-plating tank being movable; and a roll configured to turn the path direction of the steel strip after passing through the s...